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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 4 km NNW of Amatrice, Italy


Earthquake location 42.6662S, 13.2744WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Amatrice in Italy on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095ri. Id of event: us100095ri. Exact location, longitude 13.2744° East, latitude 42.6662° North, depth = 6.67 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/17 / 2017-07-01 19:17:26 / July 1, 2017 @ 7:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:17:26 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Lucia, Villalba, Castelfidardo. Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NNW of Amatrice, Italy.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.2744° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW of Amatrice, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-01 19:17:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-01 21:31:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.163 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100095ri Id of event.
Event Code 100095ri An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095ri, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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